This case study highlights how Barbados tackled plastic pollution through three key factors: embracing comprehensive policies to reduce plastic pollution, empowering youth through education, and ...

Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...

Despite clear evidence that plastic is clogging oceans and beaches and breaking down into microplastics that enter our bodies ...

Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ecosystems.

A new Pew model tracking 52 plastics and seven microplastic sources shows the crisis accelerating, with health and climate harms rising fast. Four interventions could reverse the Doomsday trend ...

Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics ...

A bizarre new type of rock containing plastic has been found across the globe, formed mainly from plastic we have created and discarded. This deposit is a combination of rock and plastic polymers from ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...